<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578651" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Gipsies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three gipsy men I saw one day<br>Stretched out on the grass together,<br>As wearily o'er the sandy way<br>My wagon brushed the heather.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first of the three was fiddling there<br>In the glow of evening pallid,<br>Playing a wild and passionate air,<br>The tune of some gipsy ballad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the second's pipe the smoke-wreaths curled,<br>He watched them melt at his leisure.<br>So full of content, it seemed the world<br>Had naught to add to his pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And what of the third?--He was fast asleep,<br>His harp to a bough confided;<br>The breezes across the strings did sweep,<br>A dream o'er his heart-strings glided.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The garb of all was worn and frayed,<br>With tatters grotesquely mended;<br>But flouting the world, and undismayed,<br>The three with fate contended.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They showed me how, by three-fold scoff,<br>When cares of life perplex us,<br>To smoke, or sleep, or fiddle them off,<br>And scorn the ills that vex us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I passed them, but my gaze for long<br>Dwelt on the trio surly--<br>Their dark bronze features sharp and strong,<br>Their loose hair black and curly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nikolaus+Franz+Niembsch+Edler+von+Strehlenau">Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578651" data-title="The Three Gipsies de Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau" data-description="Three gipsy men I saw one day Stretched out on the grass together, As wearily o'er the sandy way My wagon brushed the heather. The first of the three was fiddling there In the glow of evening pallid, Playing a wild and passionate air, The tune of..."></div> </div> </div>

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